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CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge

CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge – Review
If you need to understand the carbon cycle or communicate to a skeptic about why co2 is a developing problem, this is the book. The scope, breadth, & power of Volk’s knowledge and research are impressive. But to tell a fascinating story, he invents carbon atom characters: Dave (for David Keeling, who first recorded the ‘Keeling curve’ of rising co2); and some carbon atoms newly released by slowly burning fossil fuels, Coaleen, Oiliver and Methaniel; and Icille, long-trapped in a frozen air bubble. Click to continue »

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather – Review
What I find especially valuable about this book is the fact that it is loaded with examples of various natures of meteorological phenomena. For a pilot, it is important to understand what kind of weather you are originally going to be flying into. If you don’t spend a group of time studying meteorology, it can be difficult to conceptualize what type of cloud formation is ahead of you. Some of the pilots’ literature have rather insipid illustrations. Click to continue »

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change

The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change – Review
This book is written by a science journalist currently collaborating with a physicist who usually made some important discoveries in 1996 and since then about cosmic rays and cloud formation (Svensmark). It is written for non-physicists and non-scientists, and does a excellent affair of it. The astrophysics community begins to have newly arrived at a consensus that international climate is directly governed by cosmic rays which are spatially modulated by the intensity (or lack of it) of stellar wind. Not exactly a dinner-table topic, nor easy to understand, but this book becomes it very clear. Click to continue »

Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial

Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial – Review
Still another nail in the coffin of anthropogenic global warming. It is really scary how eager the public is to be misled. DDT, Acid rain or global warming all show the politicians, the media and sadly the scientists starting on the bandwagon to convince the public of a lie. Published in 2004 it doesn’t contain the latest theories in climatology but is a great and chilling widely read, primarily for its take on earlier environmental scares. Click to continue »

Climate Responsive Design: A Study of Buildings in Moderate and Hot Humid Climates

Climate Responsive Design: A Study of Buildings in Moderate and Hot Humid Climates – Review
What a relief it was to find this book! After ordering and eventually returning ‘Architectural Design for Tropical Regions’ by Cleveland Salmon (avoid Salmon’s book, unless you don’t previously know that "the sun can be very bright when the sky is clear and the sunlight is intense"!), this book appeared to my rescue. Packed with comprehensive information and design strategies, along with clear illustrations, this book is well suited to architects or well-educated laymen (it is NOT written at a grade school level). I was at first hesitant to order this book, as little information was gave by Amazon. After simply reading it include to cover further than once, I’m happy to recommend CLIMATE RESPONSIVE DESIGN as one of my two greatest books for hot damp making design. (The other favorite is COURTYARDS: Aesthetic, Social & Thermal Delight. Not just a "pretty picture book," Courtyards surrounds groups of highly valuable information (charts, graphs, formulas) as well as brilliant color & B&W photos, plus line drawings.) Climate Responsive Design has usually provided a variety of solid, useful, relevant information while working on projects for the Yucatan, where the climate ranges from hot humid in the summer/rainy months, to warm humid in winter/’dry’ months, to WHEW in April & May (hot hot hot & maybe humid or not).

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Beating the Heat Why and How We Must Combat Global Warming

Beating the Heat Why and How We Must Combat Global Warming – Review
As usual this book goes half freshly baked ideas to the public without especially considering the damages. For instance, they overlook the reason that easily recycled materials gennerally cost more than non-recycled materials (more energy is finished now developing them than acquiring items from new materials). The book is a classic advocate of emperical science wherein such things as "Humans are on the earth and it’s getting warmer, so it must be humans" are successfully passed as scientific rigor. Click to continue »

How to Stop Global Warming: The Great Hydrogen Diet & Conspiracy

How to Stop Global Warming: The Great Hydrogen Diet & Conspiracy – Review
Simply brilliant. Ostrom is a eventually certified genius. From vixens to Nixon he paints a piece of art that is simply out of this world. This best-selling author is way ahead of his time. Buy it now before it sells out.

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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
As with his The Skeptical Environmentalist (TSE), Lomborg has again bravely stepped forward and pointed out that the Emperor is barely wearing any clothes. What is interesting in simply reading the reviews for Prof. Lomborg’s latest currently offering is that they have been overwhelmingly positive. After simply reading the book I can see why. Dr. Lomborg does a exceptional job pointing out regular realities that cumulatively eviscerate most of the Catastrophic AGWers holy cows. Sacred cows such as the loss of glacial run off, rising sea levels that will flood main cities, Katrina-like hurricanes that will increasingly devastate our coastal cities and towns, malaria that will become epidemic in Vermont, and declining food production. Click to continue »

The Revenge of Gaia

The Revenge of Gaia – Review
This is my first Lovelock book. I strongly believe in the possibilities of climate change. On the downside I commonly found it to be eccentric, lose with facts, not well researched for extra points of view (or deliberately ignoring them), preachy and somewhat insular. His arguments pro-nuclear sound good but he never mentions some of the strong counter-arguments (ie. we would need a new Yucca mountain every year if the whole world was powered by nuclear, and no, burying nuclear waste in Lovelocks backyard to heat his home is not a possible option for a group of reasons – and an array of other counter-arguments). His argument that whole food can not feed the world is incorrect (all of China was organic until not long ago, many studies reveal this, the world doesn’t need American style industry-ag to feed itself). His core message is sound: we are in more trouble and urgent action is desperately needed. Click to continue »

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization – Review
The ending is originally meant to be a surprise, so care must be taken, but this book is really extremely worthwhile to anyone who wants to have their mistakenly thinking stretched. It starts with an test of the Dark Ages (literally) and how the deficiency of sunlight and all the closely related catastrophes, from drought and famine ensued by flooding and plagues and epidemics, impacted on each continent in turn–including the Islam and Turkish and Jewish dimensions. This is humbling book, for its sense of time and the development of history–in periods of hundreds of thousands of years–does tend to call into question any human anxiety over recent events. Click to continue »